Research

Economics Seminars
The Economics Group runs an active Seminar Series, with SBE staff and invited guests presenting throughout the year.
2019-2020 Seminars
Date | Presenter | Title | Organiser |
25 September 2019 |
University of Nottingham |
It’s Not a Lie if You Believe It: On Norms, Lying, and Self-Serving Belief Distortion | ECO |
02 October 2019 |
University of East Anglia |
It’s not all Fun and Games: Feedback, Purpose and Effort | ECO |
09 October 2019 |
University of Bologna |
Psychological and Social Motivations in Microfinance Contracts: Theory and Evidence | CPP |
16 October 2019 |
Georgetown University |
Firm Growth Through New Establishments | ECO |
23 October 2019 |
University of Cambridge |
Pass-through, Profits and The Political Economy of Regulation | ECO |
30 October 2019 |
University of Nottingham |
Investigating Choice Overload | ECO |
04-05 November 2019 |
Pennsylvania State University and NBER
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Firm R&D Investment and Export Market Exposure | ECO / CPP |
13 November 2019 |
University of Innsbruck |
Do Competitive Incentives in Team Production Lead to More Effort or More Sabotage? | |
20 November 2019 |
Harvard Business School |
The Real Exchange Rate, Innovation and Productivity: Heterogeneity, Asymmetries and Hysteresis | ECO |
27 November 2019 |
De Montfort University |
TBA | ECO |
04 December 2019 |
Imperial College Business School |
TBA | ECO |
11 December 2019 |
University of Reading |
Firm Output, Market Size and Market Power: A Non-parametric Estimation in the GB Residential Mortgage Markets | CPP |
5 February 2020 G006 (G Block) |
University College London |
A Ramsey Theory of Low Interest Rates | ECO |
12 February 2020 SB 2.47 |
University of Bath
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Repeated Contests with Draws | ECO |
19 February 2020 G006 (G Block) |
De Montfort University
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Cooperation In A Public Goods Game Increases With Information About Others Social Value Orientation | ECO |
20 February 2020 SMB 104 Stewart Mason |
Kennesaw State University
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Natural Disasters and their Impact on Cooperation Against a Common Enemy | ECO |
26 February 2020 G006 (G Block) |
University of Oxford
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Disrupting Gender Norms with Incentives | ECO |
4 March 2020 B0.08 |
New York University |
Long Live the Vacancy | ECO |
11 March 2020 TBA |
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
Market Heterogeneity And The Relationship Between Competition And Price Dispersion: Evidence From The Us Airline Market | ECO/CPP |
18 March 2020 G006 (G Block) |
Universidad de Oviedo |
Does land consolidation promote livestock production and combat rural depopulation? A Difference-in-Difference analysis of Asturias´ parishes | ECO/CPP |
25 March 2020 G006 (G Block) |
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
Dual Productivity Analysis. A Konüs/Shephard Approach | CPP |
29 April 2020 B0.08 |
KU Leuven and NBER
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Productivity, Exporting and Financial Constraints Of Chinese Smes | CPP |
6 May 2020 B0.08 |
University of Salerno |
TBA | ECO |
13 May 2020 G006 (G Block) |
University of Exeter |
TBA | ECO |
20 May 2020 BE0.40 |
University of Manchester |
TBA | TBA |
More seminars will be scheduled in due time. For information about any of the Economics seminars, please contact Dr Anna Rita Bennato, who organises the series.
2019 Seminars
Date | Presenter | Title |
06 June 2019 | Sascha Becker, University of Warwick | TBA |
06 June 2019 | Fran Azpitarte, Social Sciences | On the Robustness of Multidimensional Counting Poverty Orderings |
23 May 2019 | Saheed Bello | TBA |
17 May 2019 | Jordi Brandts, Barcelona GSE | Workshop on Behavioural Sciences |
17 May 2019 | Jordi Brandts, Institute for Economic Analysis-CSIC; Simon Gaechter, University of Nottingham; Shaun Hargreaves Heap, King's College London | 1st Behavioural Decision Sciences (BeDS) Workshop |
08 May 2019 | Ali Moghaddasi, SBE | TBC |
27 Mar 2019 | Anna Rita Bennato, SBE | Learning by (not) doing |
19 Mar 2019 | Jordi Ripollés, Department of Economics and Institute of International Economics, Jaume I University | Petrol stations and retail fuel prices: The puzzling effects in the Spanish market |
12 Mar 2019 | Letizia Giorgetti, University of Milan | The impact of submarket concentration in the US pharmaceutical industry in 1987-1998 |
11 Mar 2019 | John Gathergood, University of Nottingham | Naïve buying diversification and narrow framing by individual investors |
27 Feb 2019 | Petr Harasimovic, SBE | Optimal monetary policy, least squares learning, and the zero bound to interest rates |
20 Feb 2019 | Deni Mazrekaj, Leuven University | Effort in education and its drivers |
12 Feb 2019 | Subhasish Chowdhury, University of Bath | The Central Influencer Theorem & Pre-planning and its Effects on Repeated Dishonest Behavior: An Experiment |
06 Feb 2019 | Richard Kneller, University of Nottingham | ICT and capital biased technical change |
30 Jan 2019 |
Hylke Vandenbussche, Leuven University | Global Value Chains, Trade Shocks And Jobs: An Application To Brexit |
2018 Seminars
Date | Presenter | Title |
12 Dec 2018 | Jess Russell | Exploring the effects of crime-related factors on subjective well-being in the UK |
12 Dec 2018 | Professor Francesca Arnaboldi (University of Milan) | “Board diversity reforms: Do they matter for EU bank performance?” |
11 Dec 2018 | Thanaset Chevapatrakul (Nottingham University) | “Business-Linkage Volatility Spillovers Between US Industries” |
05 Dec 2018 | Deni Mazrekaj, KU Leuven | The impact of class size on academic underachievement: an education production function framework |
28 Nov 2018 | Jess Russell, Loughborough University | TBC |
21 Nov 2018 | Professor Guido Erreygers, University of Antwerp | Measuring and defining health poverty |
20 Nov 2018 | Lina María Restrepo-Plaza, Universidad del Valle | DEPORPAZ: Lessons Learned from a Behavioural Change Methodology applied to a Post-Conflict Training Program |
07 Nov 2018 | Massimo Filippini, ETH Zurich | The impact of energy audit on energy efficiency of Swiss households |
31 Oct 2018 | Davina Bird, Loughbrough University | Refunding Add-ons in a Duopoly |
24 Oct 2018 | Ricardo Sousa, Economic and Market Analysis Division | External debt composition and Domestic Credit Cycles |
10 Oct 2018 | Bill Greene, NYU Stern School of Business | Incidental parameters |
03 Oct 2018 | Luis Orea, Oviedo University | Infrastructure, resource allocation and productivity growth. A mutually consistent decomposition of intra and intersectoral effects |
28 Sept 2018 | Christos Genakos, Cambridge University | Competition and pass-through: Evidence from the Greek islands |
26 Sept 2018 | Ahti Salo, Aalto University | Portfolio Optimization of Decision Strategies with Endogenous Uncertainties |
26 Sept 2018 | Apoorva Gupta, Nottingham University | R&D and firm growth during bad times |
04 July 2018 | Angela C.N. Mjojo, SBE Doctoral Researcher | Economics Group PhD Seminar: Financial Shocks and Real Economic Fluctuations in Developing Countries: Empirical Evidence from Four African Countries |
06 June 2018 | Maria Nieswand, SBE Doctoral Researcher | Voting and the Relative Efficiency of Public Enterprises |
30 May 2018 | Mia Dinh, SBE Doctoral Researcher | Economics Group PhD Seminar |
22 May 2018 | Mardi Dungey, University of Tasmania | The role of China: Catch up and interactions between two open economies (joint work with Denise Osborn) |
16 May 2018 | Oleg Badunenko, Portsmouth University | Energy Spending and Health Satisfaction: Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey |
25 Apr 2018 | Frederick S. Ahiabor, SBE Doctoral Researcher | How political and legal institutions shape the terms of project finance loans |
17 Apr 2018 | Philip Wales, ONS | Management practices and productivity in Britain: first results from the Management and expectations survey |
12 Apr 2018 | Professor Antonio Jose Morales, Universidad de Malaga | Price competition, collusive equilibria and nominal illusion |
11 Apr 2018 | Stefan Seifert, University of Bonn | An offer that you can't refuse? Agrimafias and Migrant Labor on Vineyards in Southern Italy |
28 Mar 2018 | Frederick S. Ahiabor, SBE Doctoral Researcher | How political and legal institutions shape the terms of project finance loans |
19 Mar 2018 | Upasak Das, University of Pennsylvania | Gender differences in mathematics performance: Evidence from rural India |
14 Mar 2018 | Nadzeya Laurentsyeva, CEPS, Brussels | Emigration and Firm Productivity: Evidence from the Sequential Opening of EU Labour Markets |
07 Mar 2018 | Carlo Reggiani, Manchester University | The Dynamics of Online Hotel Prices and the EU Booking.Com Case |
28 Feb 2018 | Hazwan Haini, SBE Doctoral Researcher | Financial inclusion and gender empowerment of Indian MFIs: A two-stage double bootstrap approach |
27 Feb 2018 | Takayoshi Nakaoka | Utilization of Soft Information on Bank Performance: The Roles of Relationship Lending in Competitive Local Markets |
14 Feb 2018 | Paolo Agnolucci, Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London | Impact of Climate Change on Trade of Agricultural Commodities |
14 Feb 2018 | Maria Nieswand, School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University | To restructure or not? Evidence from Eastern and Western German Electricity Distribution Operators |
2017 Seminars
Date |
Presenter |
Title | |
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5th February 2018 | Professor Tatiana Bouzdine-Chameeva, Kedge Business School, Bordeaux, France Co-organised by the CPP |
Data Envelopment Analysis for the Analysis of Economic Efficiency and Environmental Performance: The Case of the French Wine Sector | |
11th January 2017 | Kai Sun, State University of New York, Binghamton (USA) Co-organised by Economics and the CPP |
Semiparametric Smooth Coefficient Estimation of a Stochastic Production Frontier System | |
8th February 2017 | Simona Rasciute and Dr Jon Seaton Co-organised by Economics and the CPP |
Economics Workshop | |
22nd February 2017 | Andrea Isoni, Warwick Business School Co-organised by Economics and the CPP |
Nudge Awareness: The Effect of Good and Bad Defaults | |
8th March 2017 | Edward Manderson Co-organised by Economics and the CPP |
The Impact of Energy Costs on Trade | |
15th March 2017 | Greg Taylor, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University Co-organised by Economics and the CPP |
Application Bundling in System Markets | |
6th April 2017 | Adel Hatami-Marbini, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium Co-organised by Economics and the CPP |
Modeling Centralised Resources Allocation and Target Setting using DEA | |
26th April 2017 | Albert Banal-Estanol, City University London and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Co-organised by Economics and the CPP |
Production Intermittence in Spot Electricity Markets | |
10th May 2017 | Christopher Spencer, Anna Rita Bennato and Vitor Castro, Loughborough University | Economics Workshop - Find out more here: Economics Workshop - 10th May 2017 | |
16th June 2017 | Ricardo Sousa, University of Minho, NIPE and LSE Alumni Association Co-organised by Economics and the CPP |
Macroeconomic Environment, Securitization and Housing Finance Characteristics: On the Determinants of the Housing Market Cycle | |
12th July 2017 | Justin Tumlinson, LUL Co-organised by Economics and the CPP |
Why do individuals become entrepreneurs? | |
18th October 2017 | Kym Brown, Monash University Co-organised by Economics and the CPP |
Persuasion in Islamic Finance | |
28th November 2017 | Ian Wooton, Strathclyde, and Visiting Prof of Microeconomics in SBE Kate Hynes, University College Dublin Daniel Gravino, Loughborough University |
Tax competition between national governments for footloose multinationals: Economic perspectives | |
13th December 2017 | Thomas Sampson, London School of Economics Co-organised by Economics and the CPP |
The Productivity Slowdown and the Declining Labour Share: A Neoclassical Exploration |
For information about any of the Economics seminars, please contact Dr Jonathan Seaton, who organises the series.
2016 Seminars
Date |
Presenter |
Title |
7th December 2016 | Luke Garrod, Anthony Glass and Karligash Glass | Economics Workshop |
22nd November 2016 | Joel Stiebale, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE) Co-organised by Economics and the CPP |
Acquisitions, Markups, Efficiency, and Product Quality: Evidence from India |
9th November 2016 | Guido Erreygers | Recent Research on Socioeconomoc inequality of health |
19th October 2016 | David Saal, Dr Huw Edwards and Simeon Coleman, Loughborough University | Economics Workshop |
22nd April 2016 | Marcin Kaperczyk, Business School, Imperial College London | Chasing Private Information |
20th April 2016 | Thanaset Chevapatrakul, Nottingham University Business School | Return Asymmetry and the Cross Section of Stock Returns |
9th March 2016 | Victor Murinde, Birmingham University Business School |
Finance and development: Have We crossed over into the twilight zone? |
4th March 2016 | Julian Williams, Durham University Business School | REALIZED RECOVERY: An Efficient Algorithm Fir Extracting the Expected Physical Distribution of Asset Prices from Intraday Options Prices (Fabio Massacci, Julian Williams, Yang Zhang) |
2nd March 2016 | Maurizio Zanardi, Lancaster University | Suspiciously Timed Trade Disputes |